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Thursday, 7 June 2012

Passed the Exam70-321: Deploying Office 365

I passed the Microsoft new released Office 365 deployment exam on May 31, 2012. I was fortunate enough to pass the exam in my first attempt as there is no Microsoft Official study guide, course and practice exam available to date.

The exam was difficult and different from other Microsoft exams and demand hands-on experience of Office365 planning and migration.

You can build your own lab with any internet domain to get hands-on if you didn’t get the chance of deployment and administration of Office 365. Here are the high level requirements to build your own lab.

Hardware & Network

A computer with minimum 8 GB RAM, 16 GB Recommended

Processor with support of virtualization with Hyper-v or VMware

Internet connection preferred with Static Public IP or use Dynamic DNS

The exam was mixture of all technologies related to Microsoft Office 365 i.e. Exchange Server, Lync Server, SharePoint, ADFS, DNS Records, PKI Requirements, licensing, service plans etc. The skills being measured in exam can be found at: